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Criticising the Syrian Regime with Finger Puppets
Daring young Syrian filmmakers, toiling in anonymity in a Damascus basement, have crafted an award-winning film critiquing with bold humor the brutal repression occurring around them. Because showing...
View ArticleNorient Blognotes #1
Norient stürzt sich mitten ins Gewimmel des WorldWideWeb, stöbert, wühlt und klickt was das Zeug hält und pickt musikalische Perlen, Neuheiten und Highlights der letzten Wochen heraus. Heute nicht...
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Block 4: Von kleinen und grossen Stars (Bern)
Samstag, 17. Januar 2015. Der vierte Festival-Block der sechsten Ausgabe des Norient Musikfilm Festivals beleuchtet das Leben von kleinen und grossen Stars und zeigt wie weit und gleichzeitig nah diese...
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Alte und neue Sounds aus Kairo (St. Gallen)
Freitag, 16. Januar 2015. Zum ersten Mal findet das jährliche Norient Musikfilm Festival nicht nur in Bern statt, sondern zeitgleich im Palace St. Gallen. Am ersten der beiden St. Galler Festivaltage...
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Pulling the Plug on Art
In their 2014 music video «#Kholo BC» Karachi-based rapper and comedian Ali Gul Pir and rapper and singer/songwriter Adil Omar criticize the Pakistani government for banning the video-sharing site...
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A Finger to the Establishment
«Nowadays no song is independent», says journalist Manal Faheem Khan from Karachi and explains how the Pakistani music business works. The music video «#Kholo BC» by Ali Gul Pir and Adil Omar might be...
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Regenerative Culture (part 3/5)
Nothing is original, just unique to the moment in which it is experienced. In the third part of his essay, Eduardo Navas analyzes Adornos book Minima Moralia and shows that even his idiosyncratic...
View ArticleRapping Against the Common Sense
«It's like a deformed anger which comes out us. Some kind of shy happiness», says Wanlov the Kubolor, one half of the Ghanaian rap duo FOKN Bois. In the Norient podcast he talks together with his...
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Exile Guayla: Episode 02 – Dance
The second episode of the web documentary Exile Guayla on the Eritrean music culture in Switzerland focuses on the environment around the Eritrean parties. It sets the spotlight on the art of Eritrean...
View ArticleWhen a Rapper Tries to Change the World
Ali Gul Pir is a comedian, writer, producer, and entertainer from Karachi, Pakistan. In the Norient podcast he tells us what's the only good thing about doing music in the national music scene. He...
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Sampling Stories Vol. 8: Dubokaj
Digging traces of sampling in the tracks of Swiss producer and – as he calls himself – «dub scientist» Daniel Jakob aka Dubokaj led me to two interesting potentials of the production method: sampling...
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Sampling Stories Vol. 10: YATTA
From all kinds of voices to the sounds of WhatsApp and Skype: in her songs, videos, and digipoems the New York-based interdisciplinary artist Yatta Zoker aka YATTA samples a lot. It is the very...
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Sampling Stories Vol. 16: Eomac
Sample-based electronic music often relies on extra-musical content such as media material from YouTube that, however, remains unknown to the listener. Tracing the genesis of a track by electronic...
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Sampling Stories Vol. 17: Lara Sarkissian
Lara Sarkissian is a young artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. She acts as a DJ, cultural promoter (Club Chai), and producer. Thereby, sampling is not just an ordinary day-to-day producing method....
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Risking Your Life for YouTube
Karachi-based rapper and YouTube star Ali Gul Pir wants to be a man who matters. He attacks powerful warlords with satire and opposes the YouTube ban in Pakistan. For this he received death threats....
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From Democratic to Corporate
The ways in which music videos generate money have changed fundamentally since the days of MTV. The rise of YouTube came along with the hope for democratization, but in a context of media convergence...
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Regenerative Culture
Just like words to create sentences, songs and artworks have become building blocks for new ones. In his essay, Eduardo Navas proposes a future in which constant updates and connectivity will become...
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A Finger to the Establishment
«Nowadays no song is independent», says journalist Manal Faheem Khan from Karachi and explains how the Pakistani music business works. The music video «#Kholo BC» by Ali Gul Pir and Adil Omar might be...
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Pulling the Plug on Art
In their 2014 music video «#Kholo BC» Karachi-based rapper and comedian Ali Gul Pir and rapper and singer/songwriter Adil Omar criticize the Pakistani government for banning the video-sharing site...
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